Syllabi for Mr. de Treville

Security Issues in the Hospitality Industry

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This 4 credit hr. course provides students with an in-depth understanding of hospitality security’s "best practices". It teaches how to apply these successful concepts in today’s hotel, resort, and restaurant workplaces. Students will learn to understand the role of management in loss prevention; how to recognize criminal activity, reduce liability exposure, and develop lodging and restaurant security programs that reduce, deter, and displace crime.

TOPICS/AREAS COVERED:

1. Physical Security – Understanding today’s security technology Includes locks,

alarms, lighting, CCTV, safes, integrated systems

2. "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design" (CPTED) – How a property

sends behavioral cues to both legitimate and illegitimate guests

3. Property Perimeter Control – Access point security, parking lot protection

4. Internal (Employee) Theft – Detection, interview skills, information sources.

5. Selection & Training of Security Employees – "Training Evaluation Tests".

6. Life Safety Issues – Fire response, CPR, MSDS, hazardous waste

7. Restaurant/Fast Food Security – Beverage control issues, employee theft

8. Coordinating security with other departments – Special events, lost & found

procedures, beverage control, partnering with law enforcement

9. Security Officer Basics - Report writing, guest service attitude, documented training

10. Risk Management – How to lessen/mitigate civil liability exposure

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These may be covered as discrete topics and/or integrated with other topic areas in an order which is at the discretion of the instructor. It should be understood that this topic knowledge is the minimum level for a grade of D or better. These and other topics may be expanded or elaborated at the discretion of the individual instructor and is in no way intended to be comprehensive or all-inclusive.

CREDIT HOURS: 4

PREREQUISITES: None

CLASS MEETING ROOM: Building 9 Rm. 127

DAY/TIME: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

INSTRUCTOR: Mr. Rick de Treville, CPP

PHONE: (407) 650-1559 cell (321) 332-5088

EMAIL: rdetreville@mail.valenciacollege.edu or rdetreville@cfl.rr.com

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS: No textbook required

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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

HFT 2630 "Security Issues in the Hospitality Industry"

Week Topic

1 Course & Class Introduction & Orientation

Syllabus reviewed and explained

Term project explained, Rubric distributed

Oral Presentations – Guidelines explained; student presentations

2 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

CPTED defined and explained

How applied CPTED reduces/displaces crime

Mechanical, organizational & natural CPTED

Physical security applications

3 Perimeter Control of a Property

How to access a property’s threat level

Parking lots

Limiting ingress & egress

Lighting

Natural surveillance development

4 "Cracking the Code of the Hotel Burglar"

Criminal techniques & scams

Video of jail interview with convicted hotel burglar

5 Hospitality Risk Management

Understand civil liability; negligence

Document Events with Incident & Occurrence Reports

Reduce liability exposure, hotel pool safety

Emergency procedures

6 Internal (Employee) Theft Test One

Investigation & prevention

Combating thefts from hotel rooms

How to conduct effective interviews

7 Restaurant & Fast Food Crime Prevention Techniques Technology applications

Use of surveillance cameras, interactive CCTV

Armed robbery prevention

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Week Topic

8 Restaurant Employee Security Issues Beverage Control

Scams and frauds

Receiving controls

9 Field Trip to a local resort. Learn how Security works "behind the scenes".

10 Security Officer Training

Interview skills for hiring selection

Developing Training Evaluation Tests

Effective security patrol procedures

Teaching a "Challenge Culture" to staff

Managing contract security

11 Employee Background Checks; Legal Issues Test Two

County, state, & federal database access

(Private) website databases

Security officer licensing requirements

12 Coordinating Security with other Departments

Special events

Lost & found procedures with housekeeping department

Beverage inventory controls

13 Use of Community Security Resources

Partnering with local police

Sharing of intelligence information via groups

Periodicals; newsletters & magazines

Presentation of term projects

14 Presentation of Term Projects (cont.)

Review for exam

15 Final Exam Exam